Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

3 reviews

ashleyjean6's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Another installment of the Amgash series. This one is very different in content, but the same wonderful style of writing. This covers the COVID 19 pandemic. It's something I am only recently able to read about, but it still causes me anxiety. So be forewarned. At this point these characters seem like friends, they are familiar and the audiobook narrator is superb. Highly recommend!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Miscarriage, Racism, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, and Classism

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Best one of the series for me. Captured the COVID years pretty accurately.

Having gone through 9/11 and now being 23 years later, seeing kids grow up without it being taught in schools, seeing how those who know what it was but wasn’t there to experience it can only view it as a point in time, makes me think it’ll be the same for future generations regarding COVID and that this book could help them to grasp a sliver of a semblance of what that period was like for many of us.

I think the book also did a pretty good job of capturing the essence of conflict lots of mothers and daughters, the longing of our mothers to be closer and the distance daughters need to grow into their own stories.

I still think William isn’t good enough for Lucy, but he is certainly devoted to her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

hannahcstocks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Police brutality, and Classism